Australian, two Kenyans on trial in South Sudan for murder
April 30, 2007 (JUBA) — An Australian man charged with murder in southern Sudan will stand trial at the end of next week along with two other Kenyans, one of their colleagues and a Kenyan official said on Sunday.
George Forbes and the two men, who all work for a Kenyan construction company in the southern Sudanese town of Rumbek, were charged on Tuesday of killing a Ukrainian man who worked as a flight engineer for another firm.
They will appear at court on May 7, one of their colleague told Reuters on condition of anonymity.
The three have been in jail since shortly after the Ukraine national was found hanged from a towel rack at the Kenyan construction company’s property.
He was admitted into the compound because several locals were chasing him for reasons that are yet unknown.
Peter Angore, the Kenyan Acting Consular General in Juba, the capital of southern Sudan, said the findings of two independent post mortem reports concluded that the death was suicide. But he said local authorities rejected the results.
“The judge is saying it is murder, and that the post mortem should have been done in Rumbek, but there were no facilities,” said Angore.
The details of the charges and the roles of the three suspects remain unclear.
Forbes was put under house arrest for health reasons but was sent back to Rumbek jail after the Tuesday hearing, his colleague said. He added that sanitation at the congested prison was very poor.
Awan Gol, the deputy state governor, said he had seen the body of the Ukrainian man and was suspicious about the towel rack from which he was found hanging.
“It was not a high place where he could hang himself, his knees were on the ground, and his hands on the ground,” he said.
(Reuters)
Akoch Akoch
Australian, two Kenyans on trial in South Sudan for murder
It is so good that an Australian is involved into a murder in South Sudan. South Sudan judicial system should show the Western World that they are capable of bringing people to justice through proper judgement, because they are so undermining, they thing they are original God created human beings on this world and that all the other humans, especially, the black Africans are just learning from them to transform into humanity.
I wish I were the police and the judge there on the ground to displine that murderer proper so that when he goes back to their country, he will be able to tell how tough our judicial and security is in Southern Sudan.
Please my dears, don’t be always tough on your citizens and relax to punish properly those who think that are better than us in our own country. That is another way of proving their thinking that we don’t know what we are doing. Punish them properly as they do here to our people in their countries.
I wish all of you best of luck
philip chol
Australian, two Kenyans on trial in South Sudan for murder
In response to Akoch Akoch’s letter, he must be mad to think it’s so good that an Australian let alone anyone is involved in a murder.
To set the record straight, the Australian discovered the body and reported it to the police immediately. The following post mortem reports have clearly stated that it was a suicide.
The police and the judge have dismissed the post mortem report and have caused unnecessary suffering. In fact the police have no evidence and have detained the man for nearly 2 months without charge.
The Australian faces the death penalty, so he won’t be going home if the judge rules against the post mortem reports.
Now do you see why the world is watching us make a mess of our justice system and giving us a bad name.
Would you want to send a man to his death for improper reasons ? If so then you must enjoy killing for no good reaon!